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* Ever notice how people who make claims about why they got banned never provide links to the posts in question? That's because their claims are nearly always false. If users could…

At a minimum, one could start an American company, which could at some point start a Japanese office (with all the accordant overhead in terms of paperwork and politicking, includi…

It's easyish to derive to good accuracy from the accelerometer signal alone (which I believe is always available).

Great example of issues I would probably never catch if I tried to implement all of this in-house. It just wouldn't get that level of attention once it was already working. "Oh, th…

Archive it and move on with my life. The work is generally entangled per the terms of your contract. If you want to do anything particular with it, the contract needs to cover that…

Well here's the essential bits in Python. I leave turning this into an actual CLI as an exercise for the interested reader. from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1Session import json …

Optimizely takes minutes to sign up for - and they're always looking to make that easier, and to make more people aware of the value they provide. In contrast, the expertise to con…

The fundamental error with trying to fix such marketplaces via another marketplace is that contractors are typically far better off relying on repeat business and some elementary l…

Exactly. Server-side vs. client-side rendering of HTML is just another optimization choice. Is it more important to shorten the time to display the current request, or to shorten t…

I do programming like I do algebra. It's a tool I use to solve problems. Mind you, it's a tool I'm very good with, and that I get intrinsic enjoyment from when using it. But I don'…

I routinely do machine learning and computer vision, and have used a number of languages for them. The main issue, irrespective of language, is that the implementation of your fina…

The only reason Python should ever be problematically slow is if you're writing bad Python. (Well, almost ever.) What you have to understand is that pythonic Python is largely a ma…

Python is the best at quite a few things these days, particularly if you need to accommodate projects (or developers) that require top-caliber tools for getting work done in severa…

"Why an “Unlimited” Plan is Toxic for Your SaaS" -- Josh Pigford, Baremetrics https://baremetrics.io/blog/never-offer-unlimited

"Okay, how do you determine what portion of revenues are profit?" ( crickets ) Seriously, I've heard this one waaaay too many times. It's right up there with "you'll work for equit…

Not implicitly, although people are free to use that as a negotiation tactic. If people try to negotiate you down, you negotiate them right back.

You are probably drastically underestimating the marketability of "can write production-ready JavaScript given sufficient time browsing docs & without copying it directly from Stac…

People with networks of fake accounts routinely set them up in advance & run simulated activity. This is normally used for e.g. selling fake likes. It's taken as a given that you w…

Let's just say, it's a fairly trivial exercise if you have access to a botnet.

Here's an option for organizing a "bunch of scripts" app that might be less intimidating to maintain. foo_script.py from flask import render_template from flask_wtf import Form fro…

That depends on your resources & priorities. Internal if you have the IT resources & infrastructure for that to be reasonably painless. VPS if you need to access it from multiple p…

You'd use Flask-WTF for forms. https://flask-wtf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ It can also handle file uploads. https://flask-wtf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/form.html You'd need to def…

Set up a lightweight web interface using Flask. When people log in and submit a job, it gets added to an RQ task queue for asynchronous execution. If they need anything back at the…